Customer Reviews

Thames and Kosmos Classic Science Archaeology: Pyramid

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I purchased this archaeology kit for my daughter, who teaches fourth grade, and my grandsons, who are seven and nine years old. They loved it. It was educational, fun, and the boys loved helping Mom carefully excavate the inside of the pyramid. I don't believe my grandsons could have read the instructions and completed the tasks alone, but it was a great learning experience for all of them and a wonderful activity for the family.

I bought this for a 12 year old. He absolutely loved it and spend many hours digging/excavating with it. It is something that will keep a child busy for hours and can be played with over and over again. I was very pleased.

i was very happy with this excavation kit. although it created a bit of dust, i was able to do it in my living room on some newspaper with little clean up. the pyramid is clay with hardened sand inside. the artifacts are ceramic. 4 canopic jars, a sarcophagus containing a real-looking mummy with a death mask! this kit is good for kids 8 and older, i would even recommend this kit for adults, i'm 25 and i had alot of fun with it and the pyramid and the artifacts make great decorations for my Egypt themed living room! it was defiantly worth the price!

This is a great toy, but once my daughter found the "artifacts" it lost it's lustre... It's fun for a bit, though.

My 5 1/2 yr old nephew absolutely loved it. Lots of competition but this one took top toy honors at Christmas - he put on the safety goggles & left his other gifts alone for about an hour. He's very much into anything Egypt and this was not only fun for him, but educational. He had fun cracking the pyramid open and loved the mummy. It is a one-time find but he had fun and he is still playing with it.

Bought it for my 6 yrs daughter, she was excited to get this and super excited to play with it. This is one time use toy, reason being that once you open the pyramid and unearth the mummy/stuff, you would not be able to do it again.

National geographic did a splendid job in designing it, it even comes with the code and you have to break the code to open the pyramid - my daughter loved this part!

The kit comes with all the stuff you need for digging/cleaning and safety glasses - very thoughful. The kit even comes with a model and informational material that is well written.

4 star for durablility as the pyramid lid broke with one time use. Overall this is must buy for kids interested in archaeology.

We got this for my 8 year old son for Christmas. It was a blast not only for him but also our 6 year old son as well, as they used great teamwork to do the activities together. The first activity had them decipher ancient writings to figure out which side of the pyramid to break into. Then they took turns cracking away at the surface material to get the trick door open. Finally there was a good hour of digging in the pyramid to uncover the treasures. There was plenty of time during each activity for each of them to take turns.

My one suggestion though would be to make sure you have a good 2-3 hour block of time, as it's going to take that long to complete all the activities. And it's a little on the messy side, so expect your kitchen table to get covered with sand. But what a well thought out toy! We were incredibly pleased.

Bought this for my 11 year old son who wants to be an archaeologist some day. He continues to study the contents of the tomb and read the book that we also purchased for him. He was fascinated by all that he learned and shared it with his family at Christmas. It was worth it!

I bought this pyramid for my son because he loves Indiana Jones. For a while he had said he wanted to be an archaeologist. The price was not so bad and it is pretty durable. Although one thing I do question is the sand. I'm not sure but my son got an infection in his eye not too long after playing with it. The box does advise that it can be dangerous if gotten in eyes. I had to take him to the doctor to get drops because of the infection. It went a way and his eye is fine. Again I'm not positive but could have been from the sand. You have to make sure your child has protective goggles that they provide in box and wash hands thoroughly after playing with it.